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depulsory

depulsory adjective: driving or thrusting away; averting.

Adjective

depulsory (comparative more depulsory, superlative most depulsory)

  1. Driving or thrusting away; averting.
    • Making supplication[…]unto the gods by the meanes of certaine depulsorie sacrifices.1609, Philemon Holland, The Roman historie […] , translation of original by Ammianus Marcellinus

Forms of depulsory

comparativemore depulsory
superlativemost depulsory

Origin of depulsory

Latin depulsorius.

Questions about depulsory

What does depulsory mean?
Depulsory means driving or thrusting away; averting.
What part of speech is depulsory?
Depulsory is an adjective.

Words near depulsory in the dictionary

  1. depulpations
  2. depulped
  3. depulse
  4. depulses
  5. depulsion
  6. depulsory
  7. depumping
  8. depupylase
  9. depupylases
  10. depupylate
  11. depupylated

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